Fredrick Brennan

Fredrick Brennan (1994-) was an American software developer with brittle bone disease who founded the imageboard website 8chan.

Biography
Fredrick Brennan was born in Albany, New York in 1994, and he was born with brittle bone disease, which stunted his growth and confined him to a wheelchair. Because of his hardships as a disabled child placed into foster care, he came to support the voluntary sterilization of other people with physical disabilities, but he later became a Christian and came to disagree with sterilization. His disabilities restricted what play activities he could engage in, so he became a computer user at the age of 6 and wrote his first independent computer program at the age of 13. He was introduced to 4chan in 2006, and he joined the male virgin website Wizardchan and owned it from March to September 2013, when he lost his virginity. In August 2013, he moved from Atlantic City to Brooklyn and became the head programmer for RazorClicks, and, in October 2013, he founded 8chan as a "free-speech-friendly 4chan alternative". In September 2014, after 4chan banned many users during the Gamergate controversy, many of them moved to 8chan to express their hateful thoughts. It soon became the second-most-popular English imageboard website on the web, and he moved to the Philippines in October 2014 to work on 8chan full-time. He was criticized for the website's child pornography and racist content, and he cut ties to the website in December 2018. Following the Christchurch mosque attack in 2019, he decided that imageboard websites did more harm than good, and, after the 3 August 2019 white supremacist terrorist attack in El Paso, Brennan called for 8chan to be shut down and applauded Cloudfare's decision to cut support from the site on 5 August.